Anyone lived near to many new houses being built ?

MEM62

We had new houses maybe 60 or do dwellings, go up in a field behind us.  (We knew it was on the cards when we bought as planning had already been grated)  In fact building commenced sat the end of 2019 so just before COVID and the construction work continued all the way through lockdown - when I was working from home three days a week.  Noise was a constant as was dust -my car was permanently covered in it.     

DullGreyGuy

We've 3,000 homes, mainly flats, going up about half a mile from us plus office and shopping space. So far little/no noise even when closer though what's gone up so far is all on former car parking land so noise may go up when they start demolishing the old shopping centre and factories. 

Biggest impact so far is that they've made our and surrounding roads permit holders parking as most the new homes won't have parking. Longer term much more worried about the impact on infrastructure/services but that will in part depend on how many buyers are living their and how many are overseas investors. The first building to go up was certainly aimed at the later.

BensonBooga

Thanks everyone. What a great response. I am quite worried about the dust too that everyone mentions. What task does the dust come from ? As at the moment there is a field with no buildings on. Is dust only likely for demolitions ?

Can anyone give me any more info on piling that seems to be an awful noise ? People say it often only lasts a couple of weeks, but are they likely to do the pilings for all 60 houses within that time ? 

Thanks all. 

marcia_

 We didn't get any dust, the demolitions had long taken place. They built 20 houses around us no dust. 

comeandgo

daveyjp said:

comeandgo said:

We have new houses going up near us, noise was at the start with the earthworks, not bad now.  What we did not envisage was the rats moving from their homes in the field to our gardens.  We had to get vermin control in.

This needs bringing up with planning and environmental health as the developer should have undertaken pest removal before work commenced.

Is this applicable in Scotland as I’d love to pick it up. 

DullGreyGuy

BensonBooga said:

Can anyone give me any more info on piling that seems to be an awful noise ? People say it often only lasts a couple of weeks, but are they likely to do the pilings for all 60 houses within that time ? 

No but they dont necessarily need to do pilings at all... depends on the soil type etc. Ours are tower blocks on London's heavy clay soil and previously reclaimed land so they went deep but when we went to see some houses in a small commuter town they were just using traditional foundations for those. 

MultiFuelBurner

There will be increased dust, to windows, outside furniture and if course cars.

FreeBear

BensonBooga said: I am quite worried about the dust too that everyone mentions. What task does the dust come from ? As at the moment there is a field with no buildings on. Is dust only likely for demolitions ?

The dust from our local development came from the crushing of rubble & concrete on site. If it wasn't for the demolition work, the levels of dust would have been minimal.

RelievedSheff

BensonBooga said:

Thanks everyone. What a great response. I am quite worried about the dust too that everyone mentions. What task does the dust come from ? As at the moment there is a field with no buildings on. Is dust only likely for demolitions ?

Can anyone give me any more info on piling that seems to be an awful noise ? People say it often only lasts a couple of weeks, but are they likely to do the pilings for all 60 houses within that time ? 

Thanks all. 

The ground where we are is very sandy, so whenever they were doing any excavation works in dry weather it throws dust and sand around in the air which then settles on garden furniture and cars. It has got progressively better as they have moved building away from us, but depending on the wind direction we can still get some dust. It has not ruined our enjoyment of our new home though.

They won't necessarily have to pile the plots where you are. It all depends on the ground conditions. If they are favourable then they will use traditional strip and trench fill foundations which take an excavator a few hours to pull with minimal disturbance to neighbouring property owners.

user1977

comeandgo said:

daveyjp said:

comeandgo said:

We have new houses going up near us, noise was at the start with the earthworks, not bad now.  What we did not envisage was the rats moving from their homes in the field to our gardens.  We had to get vermin control in.

This needs bringing up with planning and environmental health as the developer should have undertaken pest removal before work commenced.

Is this applicable in Scotland as I’d love to pick it up. 

I can't see why it would be different - but I've never seen "rat eviction" as a planning condition (have you, @daveyjp?), so not sure what the planners would do about it. Or what environmental health could do, other then deal with wherever the rats have moved to.